On Monday, a sculpture honoring Finn was unveiled and now sits in the barracks lobby. It depicts him firing his weapon, dozens of spent bullet casings on the ground.

Jones likes the fact that his old friend’s name is on this hall. But he laughs when he remembers the barracks back in Kaneohe Bay when he was 18.

“It was very meager,” he said, describing a room filled with bunk beds. “They weren’t plush at that time.”

Times certainly have changed. Joanna Ulloa-Black, 22, will be the first sailor to get a room in Finn Hall this week.

She is an aviation ordnanceman, whose job is maintaining weapons on aircraft, just like Finn. The Navy is making a point to assign aviation ordnance sailors as the first occupants.

Ulloa-Black lived aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan for her first three years in the Navy. She’s in an older barracks at North Island now, on temporary duty while the Reagan is undergoing maintenance in Washington state.